Shortly before I was in GSTS! I was playing country music and living in Vancouver. I visited my family and friends in the Abby/Chilliwack area. When I needed to go home they guys were conveniently playing that night at lugz and offered me a ride.
Back in the day drew spent 500 $ and bought a 15 passenger ford e350. I don't think I need to elaborate on how that was a bad move. Anyways, Drew's first time driving it out, we break down in Aldegrove.
It's a good thing we left early, because we were waiting for Ian's dad for what seemed like an eternity. I got the hair brained idea to start playing guitar to pass time. I took of my boots and hopped on top of the van playing some of my songs, trying to get rigs to blow there horn as they pass me by.
Slowly but surely the rest of the band caught on and hauled there gear outside. D-town and Ian were playing on the guitars and Tak was playing on the core essentials of his drum set. Remember we were on the side of the highway, so cars were flying less than a meter away from us at a speed that shook us, so it felt really cool. The most memorable (and long) jam we had was rooted from my song "Never Drink on Sunday". Every time a rig would pass we'd break from playing and try and get them to honk.
So Ian's father eventually came we put all of the gear to his van went to the dealership and picked up the part we needed. Once we came back to our van the cops were there. Apparently someone thought that a side of the highway jam was hazardous enough to call the authorities. We
denied ever jamming and they believed us, due to the lack of instruments in our van.
Shortly after we sold our van for 250$ more than we bought it for. All in all a memorable jam. A memorable breakdown.
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